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PPPShar v1.3

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PCQ Bureau
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PPPShar is used heavily in Internet booths in Chennai, and a version

has appeared on the PC Quest October CD-ROM. This software is a simple but powerful

Java applet that lets you share a dial-up or ISDN connection with the rest on your LAN.

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color="#FFFFFF" size="2">PPPShar 1.3

A Java-based software for

sharing a dial-up connection over a LAN. Rs 8,500 for 5 users; Enterprise

(unlimited users) Rs 30,000.



Features: Works on NetWare/NT LAN (with Win 95, 98 or NT clients).


Pros: Easy to use. Works with HTTP, POP3, IRC, ICQ, Usenet (NNTP), FTP.


Cons: No configuration app.


Source: Plans Proposals and Projects, 16 Periyar Street, Gandhi Nagar, Saligramam,
Chennai 600093. Tel: 44-4831145 Fax: 4848328 E-mail: pbabu@pppindia.com

Web: www.pppindia.com



PPPShar works much like other proxy servers in so far

as you need to install it on a PC that becomes your gateway to the Net. But there is no

configuration application or screen. To change the default options (which are tailored for

Chennai VSNL) you must edit the settings.ini file found in the PPPShar directory, and put

in the values for your mail server, DNS server, et al.

In addition to HTTP, POP and SMTP, PPPShar also works with

Telnet, FTP, Socks, IRC (chat), Usenet (NNTP), RealAudio and RealVideo, SSL (via Socks)

and ICQ. The software ran well when we tested it without any slowdown on the gateway

system. But you wouldn’t take it beyond five to ten users, unless you are sharing an

ISDN connection and your gateway machine is a zippy Pentium II.

Requirements size="2">

Hardware: The gateway machine should be at least a Pentium

166 with 32 MB RAM. Other PCs can be Pentiums (depends on what browser you want to run) or

even 486s.



Software: For a Java applet PPPShar has some unusual requirements. It works only
with the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine that comes with IE 4 (also available as a separate

download–6.3 MB–from www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm31.htm).


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